Team USA Diana Taurasi (L) and Brittney Griner listen to the national anthem during the WNBA All-Star Game at Footprint Center in Phoenix on July 20, 2024. PARIS — Brittney Griner’s “unprecedented” journey back to the Olympic Games less than two years after she was released from a Russian prison in a saga that rocked…
“Journey” had fully entered medical speak by the 2010s. Many cancer patients recoiled from the “battle” language traditionally used by doctors, as well as by friends and relatives. In “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag had noted back in 1978 that “every physician and every attentive patient is familiar with, if perhaps inured to, this military…
Jaime King had been feeling that something was off. “There’s this strange, volatile energy,” the actress, director and model said on a recent Saturday. She perched on the hearth of a fireplace at her home in Los Angeles, knees to her chest, gaze flitting between the fire and the view beyond a sliding-glass door. “If…
